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Calcutta Medical College

Kolkata: Medical College seeks more medics after 40 doctors test COVID-19 positive

| @indiablooms | Oct 07, 2020, at 10:04 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Kolkata's state-owned health care facility- Calcutta Medical College and Hospital- has sought an appointment of new medics to cope up the increasing number of pandemic patients after about 40 working Professors and doctors tested COVID-19 positive.

Calcutta Medical College and Hospital's super Manju Banerjee, in a letter to the state health department, which is monitoring the entire covid situation, has sought fresh batch of medics to cope up with the increasing pandemic patients after its nearly 40 working medics tested COVID-1 positive.

All the 40 medics, 12 of them professors cum doctors, have fallen sick.

All the sick medics were attached to the covid wards.

The sick medicos have been either hospitalised or they went in home quarantine, an official said.

The hospital was also in the process to add 100 more covid-19 beds and needed more medical professionals to cope up the situation. 

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